Discord server security checklist: 15 steps to protect your community
Fifteen concrete steps, in priority order: lock down permissions, secure staff accounts, vet bots, gate new members, filter content and prepare for raids.
Since 2020, Double Counter has verified members for more than 600,000 Discord servers. These guides share what we have learned about alt accounts, ban evasion, raids, VPNs and verification, whether or not you use our bot.
Fifteen concrete steps, in priority order: lock down permissions, secure staff accounts, vet bots, gate new members, filter content and prepare for raids.
What an alt account is, the signs that give one away, what Discord's own tools miss, and how an alt checker recognises the person behind a new account.
Join floods, spam waves and nukes: how Discord raids are organised, the settings that blunt them, and a step-by-step plan for the day one hits.
A Discord server ban blocks the account and its IP address, and both are trivial to replace. Here is how ban evasion works and what actually stops it.
Discord itself allows VPNs, which is how banned members and raid accounts hide. When blocking them makes sense, how detection works and how to keep real members happy.
The complete setup: Discord's verification levels, a verified role that unlocks your channels, rules screening, and a verification bot for the checks Discord cannot do.
The official answer: what “unverifying” means, how to delete your Double Counter data with /privacy, and what to do if you were flagged as an alt.
VPNs, fresh accounts, private browsing and “bypass tools”: what each one runs into, why most of those tools are scams, and how server staff can harden their setup.
Double Counter recognises banned members on new accounts, blocks VPNs and flags raids. Free for most servers, set up in three choices.